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Inside MALI- Aug-Sept 2012

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September 18,2012 Inside MaliSeptember 21, 2012 AUTO 1

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Source : www.reuters.com – www.boston.com People walk past the Grand Mosque of Djenne, a UNESCO World-Heritage listed site, in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. Nearly10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Malis coup detat in late March, after which Islamist rebels took control of the countrys northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come September 21, 2012 2 to Djenne, according to the local tourism board. (Joe Penney/Reuters)

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Signs for hotels and tourist attractions line the road in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. Nearly 10,000 annual tourists visitedSeptember 21, 2012 World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Malis coup detat in late March less than 20Djenne, a UNESCO 3 tourists have come to Djenne, according to the local tourism board. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#

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A man practices reciting Quranic verses handwritten on a piece of wood in front of the Grand Mosque of Djenne,September 21, 2012 Mali September 1, 2012. 4 REUTERS/Joe Penney

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• The crises in and around Mali are shaped by an intersection of trends: food insecurity and desertification linked to climate change; an incomplete transition to democracy and a growing population of young people with poor employment prospects. With its government debilitated by a coup, the Malian political system is unable to maintain its reach into the north where militant, foreign- sponsored radical Islamist are in control. In addition, the region is in the grip of a major food crisis. Mali matters for two reasons. First, the country is not the isolated place of myth that the Timbuktu legend implies. Its political crisis is a threat to stability in the region. Second, instability combined with the food crisis have together had acute humanitarian consequences. Aid agencies are struggling to meet basic needs. Malis industries of gold and cotton are doing comparatively well, mainly because theyre located in the south where things are relatively calm. Mali needs to fund its transition back to civilian rule through elections and retake the northern desert. Stability in Mali, as the third biggest producer in Africa, is important for the global gold market; the gold miners operating in the country; and to a lesser extent, the cotton market.• Paula Nelson ( 37 photos total) (www.boston.com) September 21, 2012 5

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A girl stands in the doorway of her house in Djenne, Mali, September 1, 2012.September 21, 2012 REUTERS/Joe Penney6

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A small-scale gold miner carrying her tools on her head poses for a picture before heading home after working inKalana, August 25, 2012. Gold mining in Mali has rebounded since the landlocked West African nations coup detat in September 21, 2012 7 late March and 2012 national gold production estimates stand at 500 tonnes.

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Halidou Zakaria Toure, 49, manager of the Malian Animal Feed Company factory in Koutiala, Mali, poses for aSeptember 21, 2012 picture next to the companys stock of animal feed made from cotton grain, August 31, 2012. 8 REUTERS/Joe Penney

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Radio DJ Boubacar "Bouki" Diarra poses for a picture in his studio in Bamako, September 6, 2012. Since Malis coup detat in late March, armed assailants thought to have links with the military have attacked numerous Malian September 21, 2012 journalists. 9 REUTERS/Joe Penney

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A street is seen through the window of a primary school in Djenne September 6, 2012. REUTERS/Joe PenneySeptember 21, 2012 10

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Aboubakar Yaro, head of conservation at the Djenne Library of Manuscipts, holds an Islamic manuscript from the 15th September 21, 2012 century in Djenne, Sept. 1, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)# 18

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AUTO Source : www.reuters.com – www.boston.com A woman walks by the Grand Mosque of Djenne, on market day in Djenne September 2, 2012. Nearly 10,000 annual tourists visited Djenne, a UNESCO World Heritage-listed town, in previous years. Since Malis coup detat in late March,after which Islamist rebels took control of the countrys northern two-thirds, less than 20 tourists have come to Djenne, September 21, 2012 according to the local tourism19 board. REUTERS/Joe Penney

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AUTO Cotton farmer Karim Traore, 29, surveys his cotton field outside Koutiala, Mali August 30, 2012. Traore says good rainsthis year have boosted his crops, which he will sell to the Malian national cotton company CMDT after harvest in October. Malis cotton sector, which according to CMDT data directly employs four of Malis 15 million people, has not been directly effected by Malis political and security crises. "My crops are doing well and I have not seen any negative effects September 21, 2012 of the coup detat on my cotton," Traore said. 21 REUTERS/Joe Penney

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A worker shovels cotton seeds into a conveyor belt in the ground while a truck delivers a cotton seed shipment at the Malian Animal Feed Company factory in Koutiala, Mali August 31, 2012. The factory is one of the largest animal feed factories in Mali, has lost at least 2 billion francs CFA (US $4m) since the coup detat, Daouda Toure, the companysmanaging director said. More than 65 per cent of his animal feed buyers were in the north, and has lost all of them since September 21, 2012 the Islamist takeover, 22 said. he REUTERS/Joe Penney

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A worker fabricates a plastic bag designed to hold cotton at the Badenya Company in Koutiala, Mali August 31, 2012.After Malis military coup detat in late March an energy crisis forced the factory to close for two months, causing the September 21, 2012 company to lose tens of thousands of 24 dollars. REUTERS/Joe Penney

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A worker fabricates a plastic bag designed to hold cotton at the Badenya Company factory in Koutiala, Aug. 31, 2012. (Joe September 21, 2012 25 Penney/Reuters)#

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September 21, 2012 20, poses for a picture at the cafe she manages, located across the road from a joint Randgold- Awa Baba Dji, 35 Iamgold mine in Kalana, Aug. 26, 2012. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#

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September 21, 2012 Traditional mud-brick walls are seen during sunset in Djenne September 2, 2012. 36 REUTERS/Joe Penney

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A night club that was closed by Mali Islamic militant group MUJWA, after they took over the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 6, 2012. MUJWA, which is allied to other al Qaeda-linked Islamist groups, has said it intends to impose shariathroughout Mali. It had already carried out corporal punishments in territory under its control, including public floggings September 21, 2012 37 of suspected adulterers. (Joe Penney/Reuters)#

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A man stands near the Tomb of Askia, which was built in 1485 for the burial of Toure, the ancient king of the Songhai Empire, in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 6, 2012. Islamists of the Ansar Dine rebel group, which in April seized Malis north, have threatened to destroy the tomb of Askia along with Tuareg separatists who have destroyed at least eight Timbuktu mausoleums and several tombs, centuries-old shrines. (AdamaSeptember 21, 2012 38 Diarra/Reuters)#

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A child is weighed at a hospital in Gao in northeastern Mali, after being admitted for malnutrition, Sept. 8, 2012. (Adama Diarra/Reuters)#September 21, 2012 39

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Refugees from the Malian town of Hombori, which is now under the control of Islamist forces, pose for a picture attheir private accommodation in the West African countrys capital Bamako, Sept. 8, 2012. After a coup earlier this year rebels took over the entirety over northern Mali. The U.N. refugee agency says over 450,000 people have since fled September 21, 2012 40 their homes. (Simon Akam/Reuters)#

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Refugees from the Malian town of Gao, which is now under the control of Islamist forces, pose at a privateaccommodation in the West African countrys capital Bamako, Sept. 8, 2012. After a coup earlier this year rebels took over the entirety over northern Mali. The U.N. refugee agency says over 450,000 people have since fled their41 September 21, 2012 homes. Picture taken September 8, 2012. (Simon Akam/Reuters)#

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Malians who fled the unrest in the northeastern city of Gao wait at a bus station in Bamako to return to Goa, Sept. 3, 2012. Mali has been mired in chaos since March when soldiers toppled the president, leaving a power vacuum thatSeptember 21, 2012 Tuareg rebels from the north to seize nearly two thirds of the country. (Adama Diarra/Reuters)# enabled 42

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Veiled female students attend a lesson at a classroom in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 5, 2012. Mali Islamic militant group the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), who exert control over Gao, have allowed classes for female students to resume but order that women wear veils and be separated from male students. 43 September 21, 2012 (Adama Diarra/Reuters)#

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Veiled female students attend a lesson at a classroom in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 5, 2012.September 21, 2012 (Adama Diarra/Reuters)# 44

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A veiled woman cleans a blackboard at a classroom in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, Sept. 5, 2012.September 21, 2012 45 (Adama Diarra/Reuters)#

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Veiled female students attend a lesson in the northeastern Malian city of Gao, September 5, 2012. Mali Islamic militant group the Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (MUJWA), who exert control over Gao, have allowed classes for female students to resume but order that women wear veils and be separated from male students. (AdamaSeptember 21, 2012 46 Diarra/Reuters)#

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An artisanal gold miner tosses a bucket of mudwater to clear the way for work on a small-scale gold mine in Kalana, Aug. September 21, 2012 51 26, 2012. Mali is the third biggest producer of gold in Africa. (Joe Penney/Reuters) #